Ayana Mathis

Author Archive

  • August 24, 2013
    In Philadelphia, where I grew up in the 1980s, there was a little-used underground tunnel between subway stations. Very suddenly, when I was 11 or 12, the tunnel became a...
  • April 23, 2013
    In the years since Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), writers of varying talents have published a welter of memoirs, each with its tale of hardship and...